Category: tea towels
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What You See
open the image in a new window to see the draft entirely I thought I would show the kind of information I work with when I’m planning a warp. As mentioned previously, the threading is a point progression over 16 shafts. (Why don’t I call this point twill? Because while the cloth is based on…
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Little by Little
blue yarn all used up (except a bit on a tube) next colour With about 6700+ yards per pound, this yarn* gives a lot of playtime for what it costs. Peg asked if I use it doubled or single. I use it single at 32 epi (more or less, depending on weft and weave structure)…
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Little by Little
blue yarn all used up (except a bit on a tube) next colour With about 6700+ yards per pound, this yarn* gives a lot of playtime for what it costs. Peg asked if I use it doubled or single. I use it single at 32 epi (more or less, depending on weft and weave structure)…
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When The Well Runs Dry
Rarely have I had the well run dry of ideas for more textiles. It was one of the things that drew me to weaving – I almost immediately saw the potential for unlimited creativity. So much so that I became overwhelmed and my biggest challenge then became to choose what to do. I did that…
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Merry-go-round
Yesterday I did the edits on the latest draft in readiness for when the current warp is woven. One part of me takes enormous comfort from repeating the tried and true. Another part of me frets that I have more than enough tea towels, when am I going to work on something else? But right…
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Enough
view from under the loom – this cloth has two distinct sides. The part of the cloth on the beam is the ‘right’ side, the part above shows the ‘wrong’ side – which is what I see while I weave. Because I prefer to lift fewer shafts. Got the first towel woven on the striped…
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Nothing Fancy
“I like boring. Boring means nothing is going wrong.” Allen Fannin I also like boring. I like when nothing is going wrong. Yesterday I managed to thread this latest warp, made of a mid range blue/green, turquoise and an odd sort of mid range blue that would not, at first glance, go with the other…
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A Thread Runs Through It
I am not averse to taking inspiration from others and have a library of resources to draw from. That doesn’t mean I can’t or don’t come up with something out of my own brain, just that sometimes it is faster to thumb through a book or something until I find something that looks pleasing to…
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Next!
spool rack set up with tubes ready to beam the next warp Yesterday I gave the white warp a good long stare, decided that while there was probably enough warp for one more towel I was having enough issues with dye lot differences that I didn’t feel like pressing on. And one section looked suspiciously…
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Subtle
tubes of pale grey I want to use up dye lot difference – yes that change from very pale to darker is a dye lot difference Anyone who has worked with yarn is (or should be) aware of a thing called ‘dye lot difference’. Not even industry gets it perfect every time and people are…